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• acomjean 2y ago
  With streaming services you can never own the content. My partners mother wanted to see something, tried to get it out of the library, but only available streaming. It's weird what it means when content is not longer available in physical form, for cultures and review clips. If every copy is drm ed.. with the current console games. Even with disk, it's a huge download on first play. I wonder how playable these games are in there initial state without download... I had a bunch of 32bit Mac games that will never run again, when they transitioned to 64bjt only software. I don't often replay and like many have a backlog o steam games I'll likely never get too. With steam and proton I have high confidence things will continue to run in the future..
  • lrem 2y ago
    Your confidence is misplaced. Digital assets rot away soon after their maintenance ceases. Gabe Newell is 61 years old. Who knows what will happen after the BDFL gets tired of all this?
    • acomjean 2y ago
      I know proton isn’t exactly emulation, but the “windows” target platform might be supported for a while..especially since it’s running on Linux pretty well. (Any game on steam deck is a running on linux) Kind of like emulation keeps working.. or I can play my old doom wad files in a new doom executable. But you are right that I’m kinda betting that things will continue as is with steam.
  • immibis 2y ago
    Only available on streaming or illegally